It doesn’t sound very exciting, but the new JSON-based store area has now been merged into the prerelease.
https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/ <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/> This is the big change that has prompted us moving from v5.1.23 to v5.2.0. It brings one major benefit to all users of TiddlyWIki: the characters used in field names are now unrestricted, making it possible to use fieldnames like "My^Field” or “☃️”. While that is an important change that we hope will lead to the development of interesting new techniques for working with data in TiddlyWiki, the biggest risk of this change is that it is not fully backwards compatible. That is to say that any tools that work directly with TiddlyWiki files will no longer work as expected, and need updating to understand the new format. The new format is documented here: https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/dev/#Data%20Storage%20in%20Single%20File%20TiddlyWiki <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/dev/#Data%20Storage%20in%20Single%20File%20TiddlyWiki> We have tried to anticipate the problems that this change might cause, for example working with Simon Baird to fix TiddlyHost ready for the change. You can follow the technical discussions here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/5708 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/5708> But now we need everyone’s help to try the new version, to help us identify any incompatibilities before the final release. Please try the prerelease with as many different saving mechanisms and server backends as possible. You can report any problems here, or by opening a new ticket on GitHub. For me personally this feels like a big milestone. TW5 has used the same DIV-based tiddler store area since the very beginning in 2011, having directly inherited it from TiddlyWiki Classic. I reused the old format to give TW5 compatibility with the ecosystem of tools around TiddlyWiki Classic. Now that the TW5 ecosystem is so much bigger, it makes sense to move to a store area format that has fewer restrictions and is easier for developers to work with. Just for fun, I wrote a Node.js one-liner to extract the tiddlers from a TiddlyWiki HTML file. In contrast, a few hundred lines were needed to read the old format: var fs=require("fs"),tiddlers=JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./editions/prerelease/output/index.html").toString().match(/<script class="tiddlywiki-tiddler-store" type="application\/json">([^<]*)<\/script>/)[1]);console.log(tiddlers) Questions and comments welcome, Best wishes Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/10C57C7B-76DE-4FDE-AB94-F778FEE85BC2%40gmail.com.
